Thursday, 28 March 2013
Whiteout!
Others chose to try and blend in with the snow via liberal application of paint...another photo from Lucy:
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
Ice Pilots!
Despite the challenges of operating from a snow covered airfield, Bruno and team were flying on Wednesday.
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| Photo by Derrick Sandford |
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| Fantastic View. |
Tuesday, 26 March 2013
Monday, 25 March 2013
Just a little snow!
Amazing sights at Shenington in the March snow.
No chance of flying with the T Hangers under 4ft of snow in places, roads around the club are passable except for the sugarswell road.
I'm sure spring will arrive soon :)
No chance of flying with the T Hangers under 4ft of snow in places, roads around the club are passable except for the sugarswell road.
I'm sure spring will arrive soon :)
Wednesday, 13 March 2013
Super soaring between the snow showers!
Another super day with lots of soaring and AFRs and BI Cx taking place.
Bruno was busy all day in DVX, so helped out in HVQ completing 10 instructional flights myself, including some great soaring with Richard A when we got to over 4000ft! Jane and Gail got their AFRs completed, and there were several others out also.
Bruno was busy all day in DVX, so helped out in HVQ completing 10 instructional flights myself, including some great soaring with Richard A when we got to over 4000ft! Jane and Gail got their AFRs completed, and there were several others out also.
Th Duo was out, as was the DG800 and D100, in which JR completed the longest flight of the day at 1:51. He even set of XC to Bidford, but was blocked by a snow shower.
Lots of fun still left in the week.
Tuesday, 12 March 2013
A sky to fly for...
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| DVX waiting to launch into the streeting skies. |
Bitterly cold, but with fantastic looking streets when I popped in. Kath on the winch and Bruno busy with Clive and Neil, braving the blustery NE'ly winds to soar the streeting skies. With the unstable conditions and the wind forecast to be on the ridge during the next couple of days, it could provide some classic fun. Don't miss it!
Thursday, 7 March 2013
Bright start to the season.
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| Harry and Bruno. |
This week saw the start of full 7-day ops for the 2013 season, with Bruno instructing and Kath back winching. Several folks turned up to take advantage of the good weather at the start of the week, including visitors flying in! Chairman, Alan L, spent several hours with our new office administrator, Anya, showing her the ropes - she will be manning the office Mon-Fri mornings to take bookings.
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| Visitors from White Waltham. |
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| Anya with Alan. |
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| Glenn with Bruno in DVX. |
Sunday, 17 February 2013
Sunday was pretty good too!
After a misty start it got pretty busy again, and although I was only able to pop in for a short time everything looked like it was in full swing. Most of the kit was out and it felt like spring had arrived!
Saturday, 16 February 2013
Saturday 16th February
Another great day at the airfield. Nice weather brought people out in numbers and we flew 43 launches off a one wire operation (keeping off the soggy grass).
Phil Marks very enterprisingly decided to fill some holes in the top hangar area and runway
The sky started a dull grey, with no sun and virtually no wind - pity those poor people having cable break practice today! Eventually the cloud cleared and we had sunshine and weak convection, with a light accompanying SW wind.
The K8 has kept very busy (we still had takers when we ran out of day) though only 1 long thermal flight off the winch. Rowan did some tugging of the private gliders - JYR & HMB had good flights - and John le Coyte flew his DG.
There was some good weather to be had, but not on this flight left, just a great winch launch, and some zero sink!
John Rogers got the longest flight of the day off the winch. Other solo pilots were Robin, Norman, Alistair F, Jon L, Paul Duffy, Jon C, Tess, Eric (ntd), Andy L, Clive & Trish. Dave Smith, Alan & Trish and John Whiting all enjoyed flights in the Duo Discus. Paul Mucha rigged his new toy (he's bought the Cirrus from Robin A & Paul F) which took some time and half of the launch point!
John Donovan was kept busy with students and check flights - flying with Laura & Richard, Richard Allen and Lucy...we flew almost up to sunset, beaten only by the canopy misting.
Thanks to John and the winch drivers for their hard work
Almost 40 of us had a fantastic evening courtesy of Liz & Mick who organised a three course meal and beer tasting. We had different beers to suit each course, starting with soup, then beef cobbler, topped off with sticky toffee pudding. Thanks to Liz & Mick for their sterling efforts. All in all a great day out.
Phil Marks very enterprisingly decided to fill some holes in the top hangar area and runway
There was some good weather to be had, but not on this flight left, just a great winch launch, and some zero sink!
John Rogers got the longest flight of the day off the winch. Other solo pilots were Robin, Norman, Alistair F, Jon L, Paul Duffy, Jon C, Tess, Eric (ntd), Andy L, Clive & Trish. Dave Smith, Alan & Trish and John Whiting all enjoyed flights in the Duo Discus. Paul Mucha rigged his new toy (he's bought the Cirrus from Robin A & Paul F) which took some time and half of the launch point!
John Donovan was kept busy with students and check flights - flying with Laura & Richard, Richard Allen and Lucy...we flew almost up to sunset, beaten only by the canopy misting.
Thanks to John and the winch drivers for their hard work
Almost 40 of us had a fantastic evening courtesy of Liz & Mick who organised a three course meal and beer tasting. We had different beers to suit each course, starting with soup, then beef cobbler, topped off with sticky toffee pudding. Thanks to Liz & Mick for their sterling efforts. All in all a great day out.
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